Buggy-iron



(No Model.)

- DALTON-TOPLIFP.

D BUGGY IRON. No. 349,128. Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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. DALTON TOPLIFF, OF FRANKLIN, ILLINOIS.

BUGGY-clRON.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,128, dated September 14,1886.

\ Application filed February 25, 1886. Serial No. 191,955. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DALToN TOPLIFF, of Franklin, in the county of Morgan and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buggy-Irons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forminga part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a buggy-body,

showing theapplioation of my improvement.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken on line w w in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of theiron attached to the buggy-sill. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a modified form of the iron. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

In buggy-bodies having deep sides, as commonly constructed, the side panels are liable to be split at their ends,'near their upper corners, by the weight of the load applied to the middle of the body, the sills being allowed to spring, while the sides of the body, being deep, are incapableof springing. To obviate this difficulty I provide an angled iron,which I attach to the sills near their ends and extend under the edges of the panels of the body to sustain the ends of the panels. The buggybody A is of the usual description, having the side panels, B, and end boards,O, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and having the sills D extending along the inner side of the panels B at the bottom of the body.

My improved iron consists of a plate, E, bent twice approximately at right angles, or offset, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the upper horizontal part, a, of the plate resting on the top of the sill D, the vertical part b extending down the side of the sill D, and the lower horizontal part, c, projecting outward under the edge of the panel B. The plate E is provided with screw-holes in both the upper and lower part, and is secured to the sill by screws pass- .45

ing through it into the sill, and the edge of the panel B,which rests upon the part c, is also secured to the plate E by screws passing through the plate into the edge of the panel.

When it is desired to apply my improvement to the back board, as well as to the side panel of the buggy-body, I provide an angled plate,E, which is formed on a right angle and adapted to embrace the side and end of the sill D, and to receive on the lower hori- V 1. The combination,with the buggy-body B,

having the transverse sills D within it at opposite ends, of the double-angled irons E, having their vertical arms b extended up between the ends of the buggy-body and the sills, the upper horizontal parts resting on top of the sills, and the lower parts resting against the lower edges of the body ends, as shown and described.

2. The combination,with a sill, D, and panel B of a buggy-body, of an iron formed of a plate, E, bent twice approximately at right angles, or offset, and adapted to rest on the sill of the body and to support the lower edge of the panel, substantially as herein shown and described.

D ALTON TOPLIFF.

Witnesses? B. D. GREEN, 0. M. HooKINe. 

